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YBS: National Anthem auditions
DAYTON — University of Dayton officials publicly unveiled development plans today, Feb. 18, for its 259-acre campus, including parts of the 50-acre tract it purchased from NCR Corp. in 2005. While a draft of the plan was previously released to community leaders and described in news reports in September, today's press conference marked the official unveiling and UD trustees' approval of a campus-wide master plan. .
Lodging leaders await tax specifics
Several say any hotel-motel tax hike being considered for a downtown ballpark should provide funds to promote the city.
The local hotel industry is anxious to learn more details about a possible increase to the hotel-motel tax that Mayor Kathy Taylor might seek to help fund a new downtown baseball stadium.
Although Taylor has talked to members of the hotel industry about a possible 2 to 3 percent tax increase, those officials say it is too early to come out in support or opposition.
Increasing the tax is subject to voter approval.
Taylor announced in January that the city has signed a four-month exclusive agreement to negotiate with the Tulsa Drillers on building a downtown, city-owned ballpark, expected to cost no more than $70 million.
Painting found in trash sells for 1 mln dlrs
I saw it on the sidewalk among black plastic garbage bags," she told AFP ahead of the sale. "I passed my way and had my coffee, but a voice inside kept telling me to go back and take the painting. So I stopped reading my book and I went back and took the painting, which had a very bad frame but was in perfect condition." The work, with bold strokes of red, purple and yellow, was bought in 1977 by a Texas couple who put it in storage while they moved house. They noticed the painting was missing in 1987 when picking up their belongings at the warehouse. Where the painting went for the next 16 years remains a mystery, but for several months after discovering it, Gibson kept it on the wall in her apartment. Tipped off by a friend that the painting could be valuable, Gibson started investigating only to find on the Internet that the work had been featured on US television show "The Antiques Roadshow" in a segment on missing paintings.
Car rental rates double for Eidul Azha
RAWALPINDI: The rent-a-car business thrives in the twin cities in general, but for Eid, an even more substantial number of people hire cars to enjoy the holidays. Now Daily Times has learnt that to cash in on this trend, the owners of auto showrooms have doubled the rent of vehicles to maximise profits.
While visiting the car showrooms situated along the Murree road, Daily Times discovered that the rent of 1,000 cc cars had been increased from Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000, for a 12 hour period, during Eid holidays.
The rent of larger cars has almost more than doubled, as the Saloon and Baleno can now be rented for Rs 5,000 for 12 hours when the cars could have been leased for about Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,500 normally. In the same way, charges are increased if a customer rents a car for a day or more.
Heads of Ghazni to meet bimonthly
GHAZNI CITY: District chiefs of southren districts of Ghazni have decided to hold bimonthly meeting for bringing peace, security and reconstruction in all the districts of the province, officials said. The decision was made in a meeting held by Andar district chief Abdul Rahim Desiwal participated by district chiefs of Dehyak, Zanakhan, Ghero and Abband districts. Desiwal said the target of the meeting was to discuss cooperation and chalk out peace, security and reconstruction plans. He told Pajhwok Afghan News such meeting would be held bimonthly in all the districts. To build the trust of civilian on Afghan government the tribal elders and local officials will be also invited to the meeting, he continued. Wahedullah Mujaddedi provincial director of National Reconciliation Commission also participated in the meeting held in the restive district.
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